The first 10 candidates who successfully completed the SoEL short course received their certificates at a celebratory ceremony on 12 April 2019 from Prof Arnold Schoonwinkel (Vice-Rector: Learning and Teaching). The short course in...

​​Collaborative and mutually beneficial partnerships between the public and private sector, academic institutions and civil society is the only way to create solutions for the challenges facing the African continent. This was the take-home...

CTL AUXIN SESSION, 23 APRIL 2019held at Education 3008, from 12:45 – 13:45 This Auxin presentation by Ms Shona Lombard explored the unique support that can be offered when senior students mentor first-year students in the extended degree...

​​​Two scientists from Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) have been nominated for the prestigious 2018/2019 NSTF-South32 Awards which recognize outstanding contributions to science, engineering and...

"Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu" or "I am, because you are" is an African philosophy known loosely as a sense of belonging. "I am because we are". Ubuntu as a philosophy speaks to the fact that we are all connected and one can only thrive if...

Stellenbosch University (SU) on Thursday (20 June 2019) officially acquired a special manuscript collection of the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (IDASA). The collection was acquired through the financial support of...

The Stellenbosch University (SU) Council had its second scheduled meeting for the year on Tuesday 18 June. Council discussed developments in higher education and at SU, and took a number of important decisions. Matters discussed included...

Wood has been essential to mankind for thousands of years for building, as fuel, for making tools, and for a myriad of other purposes. In recent times, its usefulness has changed. It is also used for things like the production of purified...

The week of 24-30 June 2019 marks SANCA Drug Awareness Week. An increasing number of people were admitted for treatment in 2017, from 8 787 in 2016 to 10 047 across 80 centres, as reported by the South African Community Epidemiology Network...

Sixty-seven newly appointed academics from all 10 faculties gathered for the first interfaculty contact session of PREDAC (Professional Educational Development for Academics) on 22 May 2019 at STIAS. The theme of the day was Teaching &...